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Digital trends & bets for 2021
Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies anticipated 5 key digital trends to watch in 2021 and beyond. Based on these trends by Gartner, the recent acquisitions and, of course, all the changes COVID19 brought to our lives last year – from a growing concern about sanitation to more awareness about public health and a mass…
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Virus Basics for Product Managers working in solutions against COVID
The COVID pandemic increased the general public’s interest in public health and health sciences, and pushed a new wave of e-health products that aimed to identify symptoms early and limit transmission through contact tracing and followup. Learning about viruses and understanding how they work is vital if you want to build solutions against COVID. Hundreds…
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Privacy in the times of coronavirus
This pandemic is fought with medical care, information and data. As already discussed, data can be very useful to fight disease and a lot of technology initiatives are already dedicating efforts to fight coronavirus through databases, dashboards, chatbots, 3D printing of medical supplies, work and delivery groups… In this crisis governments are fully aware of…
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The challenge of coronavirus control in African countries
On Jan 30, 2020, WHO declared the current novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. On March 11th the WHO raised the alert and declared it a pandemic. It’s the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 “swine flu” in 2009. However, all…